Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org

From	"tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org
Date	2014-02-12 06:29 +0629
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<4376-10250@usenet.squte.com> (permalink)
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> I quite like what I see at s'qute in terms of overall concept and feature > 
set. I'm not sure it's quite done yet, or how well it will scale to a > larger 
userbase, but I'm definitely willing to give it a try once > it seems fully 
operational. > tdk, can you tell us a bit more about the state of completion 
and > when you think the site will be ready for general usage (e.g., > 
reading, posting, moderating, account > management), or even > for testing 
purposes? 

Well, it's ready now for sufficiently small values of 'ready'. 

You can certainly read, post, moderate and generally test it. 

account management is a sore point. I don't like websites with a set of elite 
editors or moderators so, although the framework supports this, I won't be 
making any 'special' users. All users can post, comment and moderate equally. 

We can rely purely on the karma system to manage users. I will only delete 
posts or comments if I am legally required to do so and only delete users if 
they are obviously spamming. There is one exception to the 'no special users' 
rule, which is the admin user "s'qute", which is me. To stop any conflict of 
interest I have a separate account 'tdk' and I won't post stories, comment or 
vote as admin (except admin pages). 

The site needs a lot of polish, bug-fixing and maybe features. 

The main issues are: 

performance ATM for a first visit the page load time is almost a second. and 
this will get worse with more users. The easiest fix is to upgrade the 
hosting, the advertising doesn't yet support the hosting costs but I'm 
prepared to put more money in it to keep the site alive. I'll monitor it and 
look at upgrading if the average page load time goes above a second. 

look & feel It has a 90's look & feel, which fits well with the Slashdot look 
but I'd like to use Ajax more and this should improve performance as well. 

The form above the comments (with 'threshold' etc) should use Ajax to expand 
the comments instead of reloading the page. It's good the way slashdot has all 
the comments on one page and squte.com should work the same way, so initially 
I'll put another list box with 'hide threshold' on it, changing this will load 
more comments in the background. The site works well without javascript and 
I'll try to keep it that way. 

Features there are some diffs from Slashdot, e.g. viewing others votes. I 
think that sock-puppetry could be a problem, so as a defence all the votes 
made by a user are visible to all other users. This should make sock-puppets 
obvious - but also might lead to 'revenge' or 'reward' voting. So I'm open to 
changing this and other features depending how they work out in practice. 
Really it's up to you to speak up if there's anything you want changed. 

The main things I'm working on are ajaxifying, improve usenet posting, and 
adding more filtering options. 

bugs There are bugs, for example the wrapping of quotes isn't working and 
there are probably others. 

I'm excited to receive any bug reports or feature requests but please bear in 
mind this is a hobby for me. I have a day job and a family and can only update 
the site in the odd hour at lunchtimes and weekends, so I can't give any 
guarantees about timescales. I'd love to be able to give up my day job and 
work on squte full-time but that doesn't seem likely ATM. 

~tdk 


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AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 12:20 -0800
  Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 09:54 -0500
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 07:38 -0800
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-11 08:20 +0000
  Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-10 15:37 +0000
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 07:42 -0800
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-10 10:53 -0500
      Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-10 15:59 +0000
        Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 08:44 -0800
          Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-10 19:46 +0000
      Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Bill McGonigle <bill+usenet+2014@mcgonigle.us> - 2014-02-10 13:07 -0500
        Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 11:05 -0800
  Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-11 04:24 +0424
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> - 2014-02-11 11:36 +0000
      Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-11 11:01 +1101
        Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 10:30 -0800
          Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-11 14:26 -0500
            Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 13:55 -0800
              Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-12 06:29 +0629
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 09:12 -0800
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-12 15:52 +0000
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 17:56 +0000
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-14 04:42 +0442
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-14 07:11 +0711
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org True Satan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-14 13:27 +0000
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-14 08:33 +0833
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-15 12:19 +0100
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-15 13:26 +1326
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-15 13:49 +1349
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-15 22:07 +0100
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-16 05:51 +0551
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-16 15:18 +0100
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 06:07 +0607
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org 2phar <usenet9918@schartz.net> - 2014-02-12 19:03 -0500
                Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-13 04:45 +0445
          Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-12 04:44 +0444
          Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-12 11:24 +0000
          Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-12 09:24 +0924
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-11 05:48 +0548
      Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org TrueSatan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-11 12:22 +0000
        Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-12 04:00 +0400
          Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 12:51 +0100
  Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-16 18:04 -0800
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-17 00:02 -0800
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-17 09:08 +0100
    Re: AltSlashdot becomes Soylentnews.org Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 09:56 -0500
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